The prepositional passive in English: a semantic-syntactic analysis, with a lexicon of prepositional verbs

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

• Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 220
• Series: Linguistische Arbeiten; 81
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
I Approaches to the PPP – Past and Present
1 Traditional definition
2 Survey of past treatment
3 Present analysis
II The Semantics of Subject
1 Procedure
2 Subject notions
3 Subject notion and object eligibility
III The Semantics of Object
1 Procedure
2 Object notions
3 Object notion and subject eligibility
IV PPP Acceptability
1 Semantic-syntactic configuration
2 Lexical choice
3 Contextualization
4 Acceptability in practice
V Grammar and Theory of the PPP
1 Towards a grammar of the PPP
2 The PPP and the passive proper
3 The PPP and the active
4 The PPP and linguistic theory
Appendix: Corpus correlation between surface preposition and semantic function
A Lexicon of Prepositional Verbs
References